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PATENT OFFICE.

JOE 'nooxs, or ANDEBSONVILLE, e oReIA.

3E1) BorroM.

Specification of Letters latent.

Patented Aug. 22, 1922.

Application filed. November 21-, 1921. Serial No. 516,659,

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Jon Boone, a citizen of the United States, residing at Anderson ville, in the county of Sumter and State of Georgia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bed Bottoms, of which the following. is a specification.

My said invention relates to an improved bed bottom and it is an object thereof to provide a bed bottom in which the slats cannot sag unduly and fall out or break.

A further object of the invention is to provide means whereby the slats can be elevated along the middle of the bed to level up the mattress at the middle in case the same should form a valley as is frequently the case. v

Referring to the accompanying drawings which are made a part hereof and on which similar reference characters indicate similar parts,

Figure 1 is a plan of the device of my invention, and

Figure 2 a vertical section on line 2-2 of Figure 1.

In the drawings reference character 10 indicates the head and 11 the foot of an ordinary bedstead, 12, 12 indicating the side members. In the usual construction slats are placed on members 18, 13 extending along the inner side of the members 12, 12 and these slats frequently sag at the middle and render the middle part of the bed lower than the sides causing discomfort to the occupants thereof. Also the slats are liable to sag so much as to slip off the members 13, 13 at one end or the other and fall to the floor, or they break, in

either case letting down a part or all of the bed. By my invention I have provided against such occurrences and also I enable the use of slate which may be weaker and thinner than usual or may have imperfections that would render them undesirable 'n'ently spacedat the to each other in any convenient manner as by means of ordinary strap hinges 18 and 19.

It will be seen'that the slats are permamiddle of the bed thus avoiding one of the difficulties inherent in bed bottoms such as have been hitherto used and in order to space them permanently at the other end also I preferably affix longitudinally extending bars 20 and 21 of thin wood or other material to the slats near the sides of the bed.

To maintain the members 16 and 17 and parts attached thereto in desired position I place two or more transverse rods 22 underneath the bed. These rods are connected at the ends to supporting brackets 23 which extend about. the side members and hook over the top thereof. Preferably I provide at an intermediate part of the bar a turnbuckle 241 by means of which the rods can be adjusted so as to hold the slats 141 and 15 level across the bed or if the mattress sags at the middle to lift the bars 16 and 17 by operation of the turn-buckle and thus raise the slats along the middle to bring the top of the mattress 25 into a horizontal plane.

It will be obvious to those skilled in the art that various changes may be made in my device without departing from the spirit of the invention, the true scope of which is set forth in the appended claims. lVhile intended primarily for use in wooden bedsteads, my invention is not limited thereto, it being readily applicable with slight modifications, to metallic bedsteads.

I-Lving thus fully described my said invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A bed bottom comprising slats extending from side to side of the bed and divided into two parts along the middle of the bed,

supporting means extending lengthwise of the bed and engaging the inner end of each slat, and means to adjust the said supporting means up or down, substantially as set forth.

2. A bed bottom comprising two series of slats each extending from the middle of the bed to one side thereof, a supporting member beneath the inner ends of the slats of each series and to which the slats are attached, a plurality of hinges each connected to each of said supporting members, and adjustable means sustaining said supporting members, substantially as set fort gaging the inner end of each slat, downwardly inclined rodsextending from said side members to said bars and means to ad just the rods to raise or lower said 10 substantiallyas set forth Y i I 4:.v A bed bottom comprising a pair ofopposed-series of slats at the opposite sides of a the bed, longitudinal bars supporting the bars,

justing said rods, substantially as sel /forth.

slats of each series at their inner ends, rods 7 In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal at 'Andersonville, Georgia this 16th day of November, A. D. nineteen hundred and. twenty-one. i I JOE nooKsLj m1 Witnesses:

C, L. Dnms,

B. F. EASTEOFIN. 

